Postal regulators have accepted a proposal from media giant Time Warner that would stifle small and independent publishers in America. The plan unfairly burdens smaller publishers with higher postage rates while locking in special privileges for bigger media companies.

Here’s a list of academics who have sent a letter to James C. Miller III, chairman of the Postal Board of Governors, protesting the change:

We, the undersigned, share the concerns of independent publishers and categorically support and endorse the objectives and remedies expressed in this statement. As educators and scholars, we acknowledge and appreciate the significant contribution both to the academic community and to society in general made by smaller but influential magazines, periodicals and journals, and realize the inevitable consequences, which include the loss, permanently, of a large portion of the variety and individuality, and hence the freedom, of the nation’s press, if these planned postal rate increases are indeed enacted.

Henry Abelove

Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English Wesleyan University Gilbert Allen

Professor of English Furman University Edward A. Alpers

Professor of History UCLA Sally Bachner

Assistant Professor of English Wesleyan University Judith Bainbridge

Professor of English Furman University Peter Baldwin

Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles Dr. John Barrington

Associate Professor Department of History Furman University Calvin Bedient

Professor of English UCLA Lloyd Benson

Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor Department of History Furman University Joseph Bernt

Professor of Journalism Associate Director for Graduate Studies E. W. Scripps School of Journalism Ohio University Jeffrey Brooks

Professor of History The Johns Hopkins University Carole H. Browner

Professor Center for Culture and Health Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior University of California, Los Angeles Mary Ann Clawson

Professor of Sociology Wesleyan University Robert Dallek

Professor of History Emeritus UCLA Martin Dimitrov

Assistant Professor of Government Dartmouth College Mary Ann Doane

George Hazard Crooker University Professor Modern Culture and Media Brown University Alex Dupuy

Professor of Sociology Wesleyan University Daniel Fineman

Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies Occidental College Robert J. Fogelin

Professor of Philosophy (emeritus) Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Bryna Goodman

Professor Department of HistoryUniversity of Oregon Janet Hadda

Professor of English Emerita Department of English UCLA Thomas E. Hodges, Jr.

Associate Professor Emeritus of Journalism E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Ohio University Daniel Walker Howe

Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus Oxford University, England Professor of History Emeritus UCLA Niklas Hultin

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Swarthmore College Norris Hundley

Professor Emeritus of History Department of History University of California, Los Angeles

Margaret C. Jacob

Professor of History UCLA Russell Jacoby

Professor in Residence Department of History University of California, Los Angeles Arthur Kaledin

Professor of History Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology Indira Karamcheti

Associate Professor of English Wesleyan University Nikki Keddie

Professor Emerita of History UCLA Peter D. Kramer, M. D.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Brown University Katherine A. Lancaster

Managing Editor, Ethnology Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh Valerie J. Matsumoto

Associate Professor of History UCLA Wm. Duncan McArthur

Professor of English Furman University Fred G. Notehelfer

Professor of History Director, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies University of California, Los Angeles Kathryn J. Oberdeck

Associate Professor Department of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Barbara L. Packer

Professor of English UCLA Gayle Pemberton

Professor of English, African American Studies, American Studies Wesleyan University Claire Potter

Associate Professor of History Wesleyan University Hilary Putnam

Cogan University Professor Emeritus Department of Philosophy Harvard University Joseph Rouse

Hedding Professor of Moral Science Department of Philosophy Wesleyan University David W. Rutledge

Pitts Professor & Chair Department of Religion Furman University Matthew Sharpe

Assistant Professor of English Wesleyan University Arthur Spears

Professor of Anthropology City College, Graduate Center City University of New York Wayne Steffen

University Editor Fresno Pacific University Marla Stone

Professor of History Occidental College Magda Teter

Assistant Professor of History Wesleyan University Peter Travis

Professor of English Dartmouth College Jessica Wang

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in U.S. History Department of History University of British Columbia Robert N. Watson

Associate Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation UCLA Dora B. Weiner

Professor of the Medical Humanities and History UCLA Sarah Elise Wiliarty

Assistant Professor of Government Wesleyan University M. Norton Wise

Co-Director, Center for Society and Genetics Distinguished Professor of History Department of History UCLA Robert Wohl

Distinguished Professor of History UCLA Thomas Wortham

Chair and Professor Department of English UCLA Raul Homero Villa

Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies Occidental College